March 2026
Art and Everyday Life in Southeast Asia: A Case of Two Urban Centers
Public Programs @ The Institute Series: The Institutum Series on Southeast Asia Geok Yian Goh, Nanyang Technological University Singapore “Art is not a specialized activity divorced from everyday life” (Miksic and Goh, 2017: 15). One key focus of studying premodern, early modern, or modern Southeast Asia is the impetus to extricate from the archaeological record information relating to the everyday life of people. Two main themes, which are the mainstays of our interest continuing from the publication of Ancient Southeast…
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Smuggling in the Straits of Melaka: Dissident Histories
Eric Tagliacozzo, John Stambaugh Professor of History, Cornell University Over the course of half a century in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the British and Dutch empires delineated colonial spheres in Monsoon Asia -- in the process creating new political boundaries. This talk analyzes the development of these frontiers in Insular Southeast Asia, as well as the accompanying smuggling activities of the opium traders, currency runners, and human traffickers who pierced such newly-drawn borders with growing success. The talk…
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